List of figures ............................................. vi
List of tables .............................................. ix
Acknowledgements ............................................. x
1 Introduction: death and the Palaeolithic ..................... 1
2 Primate roots for early hominid morbidity and mortuary
activity .................................................... 11
3 From morbidity to mortuary activity: developments from the
australopithecines to Homo heidelbergensis .................. 41
4 From funerary caching to the earliest burials of early
Homo sapiens ................................................ 57
5 The Neanderthals ............................................ 78
6 The first Homo sapiens populations in Europe: Early and
Mid Upper Palaeolithic funerary activities ~35,000-21,000
BP ......................................................... 139
7 From fragmentation to collectivity: human relics, burials
and the origins of cemeteries in the Late Upper
Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic ........................... 215
8 The dead as symbols: the evolution of human mortuary
activity ................................................... 261
Notes ...................................................... 271
References ................................................. 274
Index ...................................................... 303
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